Day: April 22, 2025

American-Russian relations deteriorated after the October Revolution, normalized, transitioned to an outright alliance against a common enemy in 1941, then went bad for good after WWII. So it might be tempting to argue that in an alternate timeline with no communist revolution and no Soviet Union, the adversity wouldn’t have happened. But logically, if the … Read more

Since 2022 I have argued that there was an obvious and growing schism between the military and civilian leadership of the USA. There have been such schisms in the past like Korea, Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis, but in those conflicts it was typically military leaders who were overly aggressive while civilian leaders insisted … Read more